Washboard.



0. E. DRAKE.

WASHBOARD;

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20. I915.

1,279,092. Patented Sept. 17,1918.

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0. E. DRAKE.

WASHBOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20. I915.

Patented Sept. 17, 1918.

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stroke may be UNITED STATES PATENT emery osoen E. DRAKE, or HAVBE, MONTANA.

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Be it knownthat I, OSCAR E. DRAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing .at Havre, in the countyv of Hill and State of Montana,'.have invented a new and useful W'ashboard and I'do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will :enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

-' This invention relates to the artof laundry, and particularly to a new and useful 'ru'b board for a wash board, and more especially to the connection between the two. One of the objects of provision of improved connecting means between the rub boardandthe wash board, whereby the rub board at each end of its thrown closer to the rubbing surfaceor rubbin rollers of the wash board, than when'the ru board is passing over the central portion of the rubbing rollers of the wash board. In other words, when the rub board is reciprocated it also receives a vari able movement toward and from the rubbing rollers of the wash board. Furthermore, during the reciprocatory movement of the rub board, he same anoves substantially in a parallel plane with the wash board during a portion of said movement, through themedium of said improvedconnection;

In practical fields-the details o'f construction may necessitate alterations, fallingwithin'the scopeo-f what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved wash and rub boards and their connections constructed in accordance with the invention, showing the rub board in its lowermost position.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the rub board in its uppermost position.

Fig. i is a rear elevation showing the rub board in its lowermost position, thereby showing the position of the parts of the connections between the rub and wash boards.

Fig. 5 is a rear elevation showing the rub board in its uppermost position, thereby line 2-2 of Specification of Letters Patent.

the invention is the. 1

as hereinafter setig. IO-is a .detall view in elevation of the link :block 23. 1 A 1 7 Referring more especially to the drawings,

1 and Qdesignatethe' side rails of gthewvas'h board, the innerfacesof which are provided Patented Sept. 19?, 191.8. Application ii-led March 20, 1915. "Serial No. 15,742. 7 i

in elevation cf the with longitudinal grooves 3, -and the upper ends of said side rails are connected by the transverse bars l. Secured in the upper pertionsofsa-id grooves are the opposite *ends of a board 5,Whl0l1 also connects the side rails. Secured to the board 5 are the upper and lower strips 7 and 8, the lower strip :8 acting to support the-soap and the like. Therefore :the board '5 and its strips constitute a holder. Pivoted at 9 and 10 to the upper and lower strips is a heavy wire bracket '11, which may be' thrown as shown in the sectional views to engage the peripheral edge of a wash' tub,

and when the 'wash'boa-rd is not in use, this of rubbing rollers 13, which are slightly spaced apart as shown to permit'the suds to pass between the rollers back into the tub.. The rub board 15 comprises the side rails 16, the handle 17 (which connects the upper ends of the rails 16) and the board 18 (the ends of which are secured to the side rails 16 as at 19) and one face of the board 18 is provided with a corrugated surface 20, which cooperates with the rollers in rubbing the clothes. A transverse rod bracket 21 has its downwardly extending end 22 securely fastened in the lower portions of the grooves of the inner faces of the rails 1 and 2. This rod bracket is provided with a rearwardly extending but transversely disposed angle portion 22, on which a link block 23 is pivoted, and also pivoted upon the rod bracket adjacent the inner facesof the rails 1 and 2 are link blocks 24. Extending through the link blocks 24 loosely is a rod 25, the right angled ends 26 of which are pivotally connected at 27 to the lower ends of the side rails 16 of the rub board. By extending the rod loosely through the link blocks 24 it will be seen'that said blocks 24 have loose pivotal connections with the rod. The rod 25 is formed with an arched. portion28, which is loosely pivoted inthe' link block 23. Also loosely'pivoted at 29 in the blocks 24 are the ends 30 of the rocking rod 31, which is provided with'an arch part 32, which is pivoted in the linkblock23.

The link block 23 comprises two sections, the central section 33, and the cap-or coverrsection 34. However, the cover sections are integrally connected at 35,,and between these cover sections, the central triangular section 33fits, thereby inthis manner pivotally connecting the link block 23 to the various rods.

The link blocks 24 consist of two parts 40 and 41 so that they maybepivotally connected to the rod 25 and the rod bracket. It

is tobe noted that by the particular construction and the disposition of the rod bracket and the oscillating rod, the rub board duringa portion of its reciprocatory movement will move substantially parallel to the rubbing rollers of. the wash board, and when the rub board is in the, act of reaching each end ofits reciprocatory movement itwill 'movetoward the rubbing rollers of the wash board. Therefore the side rails 1 and 2 of the wash board are providedwith guides 43 of the shapeto correspond with the movement of. the rub board. The guides 43 act to steady the rub board during its reciprocating movement, and to hold the same substantially parallel to the rubbing rollers for a portion of its reciprocating movement. The side rails. 16 of the rub board have projections 43 vto ride uponthe guides 43 to hold the rubboard substantially true to its parallel copies or this patent may be obtained for live cents as, by 'Washington, D. G.

surface,-said1rub board having right angle projections extending toward the front edges of the side railsnof the :wash board frame, said rub board having its side rails in spaced parallelism with andalined over the. front edges of; the side rails-30f, the wash board may extend toward, engage and guide slidably and fulcrumon the front edgesof the side rails-of the washboard frameyto hold v 65 rubbing surface of said wash, board frame- I duri'ngthe reciprocating; movementof the swinging I the rub board substantially parallel withthe rub board, said rubboard'having arms extending below the sidetrails of, the frame, swinging llnksconnecting between the extended ends of said arms and the frame, a and supporting and governing rods for saidlinks,

whereby said rub board,upon

reaching one end 'ofeach of its strokes-will I crush and rinse-the clothes againstthe rubbing. surface Offthfl; wash. board frame, and whereby a slight rising and falling movement may be imparted to oneend of the rub board, since the right angle projections ful crumon the, front edges, ofthe side rails of the-wash board frame. a

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses: v a

ROBERT WQLLAN, v V WALTER W. THORNE,

addressing the fcommissionerot iatent s 1 .osoAR DRAKE. a

60 frame, whereby said-right angle'projections i 

